A number of research initiatives and scientific achievements of the Medical University of Vienna originate from the research area immunology/allergology/infectiology. To strengthen this successful research field further, the University defined in its development plan 2009 immunology/allergology/infectiology as one of its 4 main research clusters. As organizational measure, the University founded the Center for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology (CePII) that concentrates most of the research laboratories of the preclinical school working in pathophysiology, infectiology and immunology. Within the Center the research laboratories are substructured in 4 institutes to use more efficiently the resources and to better plan common activities:
» Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology [HAI]
» Institute of Immunology [IFI]
» Institute for Pathophysiology and Allergy Research [IPA]
» Institute for Specific Prophylaxis and Tropical Medicine [ISPTM]
» more information about the CePII and research area immunology/allergology/infectiology
Friday, May 4, 2012, 12.00 noon
Friday, March 2, 2012, 11.00 am at the Auditorium Center of the Medical University of Vienna, Lecture Hall 3, Level 7
Wednesday, January 11, 2012, noon
Monday, December 12, 2011, 6.00 pm
Jugendstilhörsaal in the building of the rectorate
Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 8:00 am
Lecture hall of bernhard gottlieb university clinic of dentistry
Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 12.00
Friday, May 27, 2011, 16.30 pm
Wednesday, May 18, 2011, noon
Wednesday, March 9, 2011, 12.00 s.t.
Friday, March 11, 2011, 12.30 pm
Friday, March 11, 2011, 11.45 am
Wednesday, February 09, 2011, 12 o’clock c.t.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011, 10.30 a.m.
On April 30, 2012 Andreas Heindl from the Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research and Judith Leitner from the Institute of Immunology of the Medical University of Vienna were honoured with the "Theodor Körner" Award.
Dr. Marlene Weichselbaumer was honored with the award of the Dr. Maria Schaumayer Foundation for her doctoral thesis entitled 'Evaluation of carcinoembryonic antigen and its receptor as potential immunotherapeutic targets in canine mammary cancer'.During her doctoral studies of veterinary medicine she worked at the Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research of the Medical University of Vienna in the field of comparative oncology. Thereby, she is primarily investigating the similarities of tumor antigens, immunotherapy and tumor biology in human and canine species. In the present study, the complex family of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) molecules was examined and a strong homology of the CEA receptor of those species could be discovered. It was shown for the first time that this receptor is also overexpressed in tumor tissues of dogs. The awarded doctoral thesis includes the publication 'Phylogenetic discordance of human carcinoembryonic antigen and canine (CEA, CEACAM) families but, striking identity of the CEA receptors will impact comparative oncology studies.', Weichselbaumer et al., which has already been honored at the homepage of the Medical University in april 2011 with the Title 'Gemeinsamer Tumormarker bei Mensch und Hund als Therapiechancebei Krebs'.
She is a member of the Department of Comparative Medicine at the newly founded Messerli Research Institute of the Veterinary University Vienna, Medical University Vienna and University Vienna.
At the 2nd Retreat of the Center held on September 27, 2011, there were presented the 4 extramural facilities of the Center (the Trachoma Research Laboratory in Jimma, Ethiopia; Comparative Medicine, a joint venture with the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna supported by the Swiss Messerli Foundation; the MARIB Malaria Research Center in Bangladesh; the Water Research Facility Wiental) and 89 projects as posters. For the first time the best poster presentations were awarded.
With August 1st, 2011, Univ. Dr. Erika Jensen-Jarolim, will take the new chair of “Comparative Medicine”.
The jury of the Otto-Kraupp-Habilitation Prize selected the habilitation of Diana Mechtcheriakova from the Institute of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research as one of the top three habilitations of the Year 2010.
The prize "Habilitation of the Year 2010 " will awarded during a ceremony held on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at 06.00 pm in the rooms of the Society of Physicians (Vienna, Frankgasse 8). More information you will find here.
